You will find it in most ready-to-wear collections and at all prices. Long or short, thin or flared, often black, sometimes colorful, the tie will stand out this fall as the fashionable feminine accessory. It will be tied or untied on white or transparent shirts, on long or short, loose or tight dresses, on flared skirts or slim pants, on knitwear or on a cotton T-shirt. It will adorn a plunging neckline or revive the uniform of the young schoolgirl, with a pleated miniskirt and high socks…
A 1920s flapper accessory
If the tie made a remarkable passage at Dior, Dolce & Gabbana or Carolina Herrera, the one who imposed it on all the models in his ready-to-wear collection is Pierpaolo Piccioli for the Valentino house. Black, fine and long ties to play the rebels in boots, the fashionistas in ballerinas, the boys in moccasins or the femme fatales in pumps. Ties, women can be all that at the same time.
This winter you can push sophistication to the extreme by tying your lace tie around your neck like in the 18th century. You will be allowed to wear it as a sign of emancipation, à la George Sand or à la Colette. And if the ambiguity tells you, go straight ahead, play the flappers of the 1920s by using it as a sexual identification accessory: I wear a tie so I like women. Unleash the Marlene Dietrich that lies dormant in you. Pay homage to Simone de Beauvoir who, if not born a woman, became the one who wore a tie. Be rock and fan of the seventies with Patti Smith who, in her Robert Mapplethorpe version, the door untied. Give yourself the thrill of 1980s female domination à la Thierry Mugler. Anyway, show me how you wear the tie, I’ll tell you who you are.
The deputies wear it in the Hemicycle
And if the revolution remains a beautiful utopia for you, make your band of cloth a banner, as the deputies of Nupes did not long ago when they landed in all their ties at the National Assembly in July of last year. It was then a question of opposing the project of the right which wanted to establish in the hemicycle its obligatory wearing for men.
By this gesture with situationist overtones, supposed to defend men’s freedom of dress, the women of the Nupes not only appropriated this symbol of male power, they announced and affirmed their own power. Is it that far the day when the next President of the Republic will be photographed in a tie in front of the Elysée? All that will remain for men is to wear pearl necklaces. Which is already very good for those who dare.